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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- Which I knew, and I have always found bizarre. There were two upvotes when I made last night's report, so I knew that there was one beyond the initial one for the reporter.
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- Which I knew, and I have always found bizarre. There were two upvotes when I made last night's report, so I knew that there was one beyond the initial one for the reporter.
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- "Home Grown" programs are always treated as suspicious, and for very good reason. Like you said, "it comes with the territory," because that territory is the most fertile ground for malware (as a ge
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- "Home Grown" programs are always treated as suspicious, and for very good reason. Like you said, "it comes with the territory," because that territory is the most fertile ground for malware (as a ge
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Brian Vogel
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- To my knowledge, this is, and has always been the case. Upvotes are somewhat like "likes" in many places, but actually serve a real purpose of letting MS know that those upvoting are very likely hav
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- To my knowledge, this is, and has always been the case. Upvotes are somewhat like "likes" in many places, but actually serve a real purpose of letting MS know that those upvoting are very likely hav
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Brian Vogel
· #50469
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
Well, someone has managed to get to it using the short sharing link, as it's been upvoted once, shortly before 7 PM. That being said, one can also generate a different "long" sharing URL, so here that
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Well, someone has managed to get to it using the short sharing link, as it's been upvoted once, shortly before 7 PM. That being said, one can also generate a different "long" sharing URL, so here that
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Brian Vogel
· #50462
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- FYI, the same thing happens if I try to access it on my partner's computer, where he's logged in to Feedback Hub with his Microsoft Account (though I had to do that the first time Feedback Hub opene
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- FYI, the same thing happens if I try to access it on my partner's computer, where he's logged in to Feedback Hub with his Microsoft Account (though I had to do that the first time Feedback Hub opene
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Brian Vogel
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- I do not know whether you're using a Microsoft Account linked Windows 10 user account, or a local one. I believe you must be using the former. But I have seen this issue pop up before, for reasons I
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- I do not know whether you're using a Microsoft Account linked Windows 10 user account, or a local one. I believe you must be using the former. But I have seen this issue pop up before, for reasons I
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Brian Vogel
· #50459
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
- Just FYI, that's why I've used Feedback Hub on those occasions where I did need to report a False Positive. It is not nearly as demanding of information, much of which, as you've noted, is something
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- Just FYI, that's why I've used Feedback Hub on those occasions where I did need to report a False Positive. It is not nearly as demanding of information, much of which, as you've noted, is something
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Brian Vogel
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Windows Security - Suggestion for False Positive Report Submission
There is a topic currently active on the NVDA Group (which so happens to not be about NVDA, but since security is so important, and so many do not understand many of the things that lie behind securit
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There is a topic currently active on the NVDA Group (which so happens to not be about NVDA, but since security is so important, and so many do not understand many of the things that lie behind securit
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Brian Vogel
· #50454
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I had a very strange thing happen to my Windows 10 20H2 laptop
- I believe it already was, as I recall having posted a direct link to the KB number where this was fixed, somewhere. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Yet another reason why keeping one's Windo
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- I believe it already was, as I recall having posted a direct link to the KB number where this was fixed, somewhere. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Yet another reason why keeping one's Windo
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Brian Vogel
· #50453
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I had a very strange thing happen to my Windows 10 20H2 laptop
SSD failures, when they do occur, very often occur without any warning. HDDs have the advantage that they generally give off all kinds of warning signs that something is amiss, including auditory clue
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SSD failures, when they do occur, very often occur without any warning. HDDs have the advantage that they generally give off all kinds of warning signs that something is amiss, including auditory clue
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Brian Vogel
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I think my battery might be on its way out, or not?
If the battery is 4 years old, and you've either been using it a lot on battery power, or the opposite extreme, keeping the AC power supply constantly charging the battery while using it as though it
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If the battery is 4 years old, and you've either been using it a lot on battery power, or the opposite extreme, keeping the AC power supply constantly charging the battery while using it as though it
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Brian Vogel
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Latest Regular build of Windows 10
- Which, in the case of electronic documents, is just one tiny step away from having nothing at all, but better than nothing at all. Can you imagine trying to type a book manuscript that you happen to
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- Which, in the case of electronic documents, is just one tiny step away from having nothing at all, but better than nothing at all. Can you imagine trying to type a book manuscript that you happen to
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Brian Vogel
· #50442
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Log-On Question
Bill, If you are either installing Windows 10 from scratch on a machine that's never had it, or doing a completely clean reinstall on one that has, part of the initial boot process now is a question a
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Bill, If you are either installing Windows 10 from scratch on a machine that's never had it, or doing a completely clean reinstall on one that has, part of the initial boot process now is a question a
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Brian Vogel
· #50440
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Latest Regular build of Windows 10
To add to Joseph's marvelous message: It seems that attitudes toward applying feature updates, and particularly on the blind tech groups I frequent, have really been on a pendulum swing between the ea
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To add to Joseph's marvelous message: It seems that attitudes toward applying feature updates, and particularly on the blind tech groups I frequent, have really been on a pendulum swing between the ea
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Brian Vogel
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desktop with onboard Bluetooth
Oops, I forgot to say that the probability of there being any difference between using a Bluetooth dongle or a built-in Bluetooth card as the machine's Bluetooth conduit is very close to zero, unless
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Oops, I forgot to say that the probability of there being any difference between using a Bluetooth dongle or a built-in Bluetooth card as the machine's Bluetooth conduit is very close to zero, unless
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Brian Vogel
· #50434
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desktop with onboard Bluetooth
And to add to Joseph's entirely accurate observation, Bluetooth itself is managed by the Windows operating system. If it's there and functioning it's there and functioning. So if you've already got mu
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And to add to Joseph's entirely accurate observation, Bluetooth itself is managed by the Windows operating system. If it's there and functioning it's there and functioning. So if you've already got mu
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Brian Vogel
· #50433
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Work Computer updating or shutting down and then restarting without permission
And if Joseph is correct that this is a centrally administered machine, then it's likely not only to be you that's experiencing the issue. They need to tweak the active hours via group policy to cover
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And if Joseph is correct that this is a centrally administered machine, then it's likely not only to be you that's experiencing the issue. They need to tweak the active hours via group policy to cover
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Brian Vogel
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Latest Regular build of Windows 10
- Several non-free alternatives have been mentioned here on multiple occasions when backup and recovery have been discussed. There are also talking versions of WinPE with NVDA built in that can be use
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- Several non-free alternatives have been mentioned here on multiple occasions when backup and recovery have been discussed. There are also talking versions of WinPE with NVDA built in that can be use
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Brian Vogel
· #50424
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Latest Regular build of Windows 10
- There is never any "clarity from Microsoft" in this regard because of the numerous states of flux that Windows As A Service (WAAS) has gone through. I can say, though, that the days of being afraid
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- There is never any "clarity from Microsoft" in this regard because of the numerous states of flux that Windows As A Service (WAAS) has gone through. I can say, though, that the days of being afraid
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Brian Vogel
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Latest Regular build of Windows 10
- Absolutely. But remember, the delivery method in place since 1903 will show you as being up to date even when the announcement of the Feature Update is present on your Windows Update pane. That Up t
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- Absolutely. But remember, the delivery method in place since 1903 will show you as being up to date even when the announcement of the Feature Update is present on your Windows Update pane. That Up t
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